Old Route 66, Continental Divide, Windslow Arizona Corner & More
More pictures from our driving adventure out west. Some pictures are from old Route 66 and others are places we stopped at.
I was impressed by how well maintained most of the open businesses on old Route 66 looked.
How cool would it be to sleep in a wigwam!
OK maybe not, but I had to get a picture. I wish I could have looked inside.
This delicious Italian restaurant is across the street from a college in Albuquerque New Mexico.
Although in need of painting, the front door was very unique.
Things to look at as we waited in line, this is Muhammad Ali the boxer.
Babe Ruth the famous baseball player.
Located in New Mexico and specializes in Indigenous jewelry.
This didn’t appear to be too popular with only one other car while we were there. I thought the view was beautiful.
This picture is at the Continental Divide. We saw so many trains on our vacation, they took away from the beautiful scenery, however, what an easy way to get a large amount of supplies quicker to places and get some truck traffic off the roads.
Another picture at the Continental Divide. No matter how many rock formations we saw, they all looked different and some looked like they were from outer space! We live on flat ground so the amazing views like this one was exciting.
There wasn’t much to do here but there was a gift shop and I didn’t come out empty handed. Are you singing the song in your head yet?
Now that is an intersection!
Do you see the bald eagle and the couple dancing (my husband isn’t it)?
I saw this cross while my husband was driving. Makes me wonder how the heck they put it up there.
Next week, The Painted Desert and Petrified Forest!
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I was born in Arizona.
Here in Boise on a hill called Table Rock there is a cross positioned there. They close the entrance at night as people have climbed the cross to sit on one of its extensions. My friend did exactly that when we were in high school.
No way, that is crazy!
That’s what I told him. I asked how he did it and he said he couldn’t remember. I recall though before they closed it at night, someone was stuck up there all night. This was back in the 90’s
That was a long night I’m sure! Lol
Yes I’m sure it was.
What a trip. And you didn’t have to cook
There is so much more to see. I really enjoyed not cooking but only because the food we ate was so different than we are used to.
I think sleeping in a wigwam must be a fun experience (well, at least once in your lifetime 😁). I love your Route 66 photos – all these places are so original with their décor. Thank you for sharing it with us!
I camped for years and my sleeping bag was on the ground. Then I moved up to a pop up camper that had beds and I pulled it behind my car. Then I bought a motorhome with the luxury of a refrigerator, stove and bathroom! When I married my husband, he didn’t love camping so we bought a house in the country as a compromise and sold the motorhome to our new neighbor. He didn’t tell me he didn’t like camping until after he put the ring on my finger.(Men) Rt 66 was so much fun because as you said, so original and not like anything we saw before. You’re welcome Corna!
Oh my, so I can’t really tell you anything about camping – you’re an old camper!!
Your man sounds like mine – Berto only told me after our wedding that he doesn’t actually like hiking (apparently, he did enough of that in the army), but I’ve ‘converted’ him over the years 😉.
Camping is just like what you do. Cook over the fire, roast marshmallows, port-a-pot, hiking and sit around the fire at night. Had you not told me, I would have thought Berto loved hiking! Lol
Great pictures, the wigwams look cool as well!. Love that statue of Muhammad Ali too! Look like you had a lovely time.
Thank you Paul, the entire trip went perfectly. I don’t know how we avoided any rain but I’m glad we did.
I always think of Winslow from the Eagles’ song
They even had a button at the gift shop to push and it played the song. Even though there wasn’t much to do there, I loved standing on the corner.
Great photos. How long was your trip, weeks long?
I lived in a teepee briefly while building a house for myself outside of Prescott AZ. It got too dusty for me, but I liked the feeling of it, except for not having any windows 😀
We were gone for 13 days. All the Route 66 stops help to break up the long drive as we drove from northern Ohio to the Grand Canyon, then south and ended at the Riverwalk in San Antonia.
Did you sleep on the ground in the teepee? I used to camp all the time in my younger years and spent many nights in a tent on the ground but I wouldn’t be able to get up if I did it now. Lol That was a great idea to do that while you built your house, it had to save you a lot of money!
What a fun trip! And so many colorful buildings. The views are interesting, too! I am glad you had so much fun.
I think that’s everything we saw on Rt 66. Now the larger sites to see!
Thanks so much Ned!
Thanks for sharing more fun pictures! I can’t wait to do this roadtrip someday 🙂
You’re welcome! There is more to do than what we did, we just visited what interested us.
Wow what a trip. Every stop that you stop at looks amazing. And I love that corner in Winslow, Arizona and yes, I did sing the song lol
Awe Thank you! It took me all day to get it out of my head. Then I came home and made multiple photo books and it started again. Lol
You are seeing some great sights! The corner of Winslow is cool, but I agree, nothing to do there.
Looking forward to your next post!
I tried to buy a Christmas ornament from everything we did, just for fun. I was thrilled to get one from there too.
Saggio’s has seriously good pizza!
It sure looked good and they were packed, not just college kids either!
Very cool, Diane! I would’ve loved to stay in a wigwam too for the experience. Also curious to see what the inside looked like!
The continental drive looked amazing with great views. Also surprised not many people would’ve stopped to enjoy that!
Have you ever watched the show Breaking Bad? It was filmed in Albuquerque and I seem to think some locations it filmed at include the continental drive.
A fellow blogger sent me the link to inside of the wigwams. Not what I expected at all! There was A/C, two double beds in one and even a bathroom! They didn’t look that big from the outside. If you scroll up, Linda’s comment has the link to it.
Will take a look! I’m amazed it has AC!
I am enjoying this series of posts along Route 66 Diane. How fun all these places are, especially the older shops and that Wigwam Hotel. I looked it up as I was curious too how it looked – I’ll put the link in a separate comment so you can just delete it or leave it. Yes, “Take It Easy” is an earworm now the rest of the night, but that’s okay, I love the song and Glenn Frey was a local guy, from Birmingham, Michigan. How cool they have a special corner like this and the statue. I am glad Terry posed in front. The Continental Divide is interesting – lots of history, both fun and natural along the way.
I didn’t know Glenn Frey was from Michigan. I loved the rock formations at the Continental Divide. The trains just kept coming which ruin any good pictures without cropping the train out. I think this is the last pictures of Route 66. On to the Painted Dessert and Petrified Forest, two of my favorite places we saw.
Yes, when he died all the radio/news stations talked about it for days. His son has taken his place in the band (or did after he died anyway). I always liked the Eagles and would have liked to have seen them. A fellow blogger went to see them a year or so ago and said the tickets were $150.00 apiece! They used to play at Pine Knob and my friends from the newspaper and I got tickets for six groups every Summer – the Eagles were not one, (Beach Boys, Chicago, America , Four Tops, Four Seasons – can’t remember the last one – always the same six groups) and for all six shows I don’t think it was $100.00. I have not heard of those two places … it sounds interesting.
Great price and fantastic groups to see!
Yes, such a bargain back then – even the equivalent of what it would cost now, would not be that much, like $150.00/ticket. Wow!
Here is the link to the Wig Wam Motel … the rooms look okay, Indian motif and yes, different to spend the night in a wigwam.
https://sleepinawigwam.com/accommodation/
Thank you for that Linda!!!! I would never have guessed they looked like that inside and with A/C and a bathroom too! Definitely not what I expected.
You’re welcome Diane – I was curious and when you said you wondered too, I Googled. I laughed at the front flap over the door. Now you wish you had stayed there!
I forgot to say that I didn’t see the bald eagle and couple dancing until you pointed it out.
Everything in the windows were fake. We didn’t notice them either until I went to edit my pictures. Lol
That’s good as I never noticed them until you pointed it out. I have had nice surprises when I have the picture up on the screen and wonder why I didn’t see it at the time?
I place my picture and then the caption under it. I think people may be looking at the picture that is below my caption instead of above.
Well, that could be. but at least you have boldface and notice the caption information. Those are not the captions in the photo area are they? I find them small, but that might be my theme too makes them small, so I always have to boldface them if I use captions.
I have to make the captions bold and larger because the letters are tiny.
Yes, I always do the captions bold too but maybe the font on my site is too light as they still look tiny and you have to squint – wait, maybe that is just me? 🙂 I have this site and many others set to 125%, sometimes 150%. I don’t want to do a global reset because I just do it for the sites I’m on a lot.
By changing the picture sizes, the font and going bold along with the WP issues I am having right now, it takes me twice as long to do my post. I didn’t have any issue before the screwed up my site.
That is annoying – I wish they weren’t always tweaking things. When I start a new post, I always set the date to post right then and there. I do that in case I hit a stray key and it posts by accident. A fellow blogger did a post recently and for some reason, WP closed out (which happens to me a lot and I get a message that I have a version of the last “saved” post) and when it closed out, it sent out her unfinished post. But just to e-mail subscribers only, not on the site or in Reader. She was not aware of it until one of her e-mail subscribers alerted her. Now, how does that happen? A fellow blogger sent me her post she did several years ago about Killdeer and she said she went to send me the link and saw that several pictures were missing. I have had that happen too. I knew the name of a post and so when a blogger did a post about ducks, I said “I have something fun to show you” and knew the post name, searched on my site, sent it to her. She commented to me “did you know a bunch of pictures are grayed out and only say the name you gave them?”
That’s awful! I have figured out enough to still want to blog but something needs to change.
It is discouraging … I wanted to tell you that I said I had only used half of my media files. Yesterday I did a post for Sunday and it is about the Killdeer and the nests that I wrote about for Mother’s Day, but I added the actual walk I took for this post. So I thought “should I go back and grab the four or five pics I used in the Mother’s Day post in May?” So I looked how my media files looked and was surprised I had only used 1.5 … it said “You are currently using 1.5 GB out of 13 GB upload limit (11%). Upgrade your plan to increase your storage space.” I would have sworn it was half of that when I looked last time. A fellow blogger had to upgrade to a business plan because she ran out of space in her premium plan (what I have – 13 GB). I said to her that she posted a lot of pics from her cellphone and I know the pictures are huge (from the few times like today when I took pics for convenience sake). I told her I make a screenshot of each picture to keep the size at 675 X 675. So she was going to do that – I said “even if you post it from your phone for convenience sake, then when you’re on your laptop, resize the pics then.” So she was going to do that. She wrote a whole post how mad she was the WP made her upgrade as she ran out of space and she wondered why she ran out of space. And she liked her theme and couldn’t use it on the business plan.
I don’t understand half of what WP does! My usage should be a lot higher once my vacation pictures are posted but I think my business plan is 200GB. The only way around the data would be to delete the oldest ones. I know my first year of blogging was horrible. My pictures were the worst! So when I start to run out of storage I will delete them or redo them.
That is what I suggested to Esther because the few pics I have used from the phone because it was quicker are all huge pictures … she did not resize them. And, I had an issue with a photo card reader when I took the art class with Julia (the 4-week course on botanicals with feedback) as we had an assignment and had to turn in our paintings by Sunday each week, then got a new assignment on Monday. So I plugged a brand-new card reader into the Windows 11 and the photo card into it and it messed up the computer as it was a corrupt card reader. If she has the class this Fall, I will have to get a new card reader or use the old one … I don’t have space to have everything out. Today I had issues – I put together my post for August 17th and halfway through it, the post would just fade away and say “you may not have saved this work” (something to that effect) so I had to go back paragraph by paragraph to ensure it didn’t delete something I put in there – took me 2X as long to do the post and two Wordless Wednesday posts … ridiculous. Most of my earliest posts were one paragraph long and no picture, then I made them a few paragraphs longer and added one picture, maybe two and so I was not racking up the media space back then.
I would have stopped blogging if that happened to me. I don’t understand much with computers. I just do the same thing every post and pray it works. Lol All my pictures come from my screen shots then I resize, however, until I get whatever they did to my blog fixed I can’t get the proper size without twice the work.
I hope they have helped you by now Diane … I would just repost until they straighten it out (unless reposting is problematic as well). I was frustrated with trying to do this post yesterday.
Unfortunately I haven’t felt well enough to deal with the frustration. I still have no SEO or AI though. Good thing I don’t blog for the money. 🥴
Yes, that’s true … you can take it a little easy or reblog some tried-and-true favorites in the meantime.
Thanks Linda for your kind words.
You are welcome Diane.
OMG I literally spent the longest time looking at that last picture for the bald eagle and the couple dancing only to realize it was in the picture before that one. 🤣
Awe I’m sorry! I always put the picture first and then the caption under the picture.
It’s my fault i just thought it was funny.
You made me remember the Taste of Homes magazine. Years back I subscribed to it and they had a contest called Ted’s toothpick. Somewhere, hidden in each magazine, they had a hidden toothpick. If you found it (it wasn’t easy) you could enter the contest for the month. It drove me nuts when I couldn’t find it. I never won the contest when I did send it in. Lol
Looks like you made grand travel memories with your favorite one!
We sure did, it was such a fun trip. Thank you Mary!
More gorgeous photos. So there really is a Winslow, Arizona? Huh. I have the song running through my head now. Thanks for sharing! Karla/Clampetts
Yes there was even a speaker with a button you could push to hear the song. I didn’t need to because as soon as we parked the car the song was in my head. Lol
Diane, I was singing the Eagles song just from the title – and that was a great intersection photo – and the continental divide photos are so cool – also – how did they get the corss up there? A helicopter maybe?
That song is contagious! It was easy getting pictures at the intersection because no one was around until after I finished, then a nice couple asked if we wanted a picture of both of us. All my pictures were of my husband. I have no idea how they got that cross up there. I wondered how they secured it as the wind would be so much worse up that high. You have to be right with the helicopter.
We stopped in Winslow on the return journey of our trip out west in 2023. We visited that same shop and spent a pretty penny on souvenirs, LOL.
That was a huge souvenir shop. I collected Christmas Tree ornaments from wherever we stopped. With as small as that corner is, they had some!
Yes, I am singing now, Diane. I loved Albuquerque.
That’s funny you say that Carla, I couldn’t get the song out of my head for days!